Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
PLINY THE ELDERMost men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
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Chance is a second master.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Among these things, one thing seems certain – that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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